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Show Utah Prison Has' Held Few Women On Murder Charge Records hov Only Three Female Fe-male Prisoners in State Institu-, tion at Present Time; One Died - During Term In connection with tha trial of Angelina VV'iicaier, charged with the murder of Charles A. Kaua, and the different opinions of tha jurymen re-, re-, gardtng the Incarceration of women or girls In the atata prleon. record! at tha state prison enow only one woman haa served time ' there for first degree murder In tha last nineteen nine-teen years. The woman In question was Mary Jane Bui I lb. who waa found I guilty of administering knockout I drops to a man, for the purpose of robbing him back In .101. and who Was sentenced tw serve twenty years In prison Hhe died before tha aen-lence aen-lence expired. In November, lli, tha murder af Hosa M. Bonny. Bait Lake altorney.'ln his office in tha K earns building by Mrs. Amy Ellen Hill, created a sensation, sen-sation, llonny, U Is alleged. Jilted Mrs. Hill, who armed herself with a revolver and went to his office, where she ehtit him twice, after he refused to marry her. Hhe was charged with first degree murder, but was later allowed to plead to Involuntary manslaughter, man-slaughter, for which ahe served nine months In tha county Jail. About twenty -years ago Rora Hodge waa charged with murdering a vendor of spectacles on Cottonwood creek, south of the city. She and tha man waa traveling around the country coun-try earning their living that way. Hhe shot him to obtain hla money, aa-cordlngvt" aa-cordlngvt" etory of Jailers at the county Jail who have been at that Institution for yeara. The Hodge wumun went to tho hospital for ap-pendlcllla ap-pendlcllla before being tried, however, how-ever, and committed suicide while there. Another murder case In which a local woman figured waa that of Marie Arthur, who ahot and killed her lover. "Broadway" Jonea, about eight years ago. Jones, It is alleged, was running around with other women wom-en and the Arthur woman discovered It and shot him. Rhe served several months In the country Jail. At the present time there are only three women confined at the atata prison. They are Laurtne Griffin of Ucden, who waa aent there Jrprll of this year charged with voluntary manslaughter of a Chinese In Ugden; Mrs. Charles Martin, who with her husband attracted conalderable attention at-tention several montha ago In connection con-nection with their robbery of Ir. A. C. Wherry'a home, and Bessie Dickson, charged with robbery. |